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Career Path => Different Country => Topic started by: richardakins21@yahoo.com on Jan 26, 2012, 10:52

Title: Job in Japan?
Post by: richardakins21@yahoo.com on Jan 26, 2012, 10:52
Hello. I am a student in a Rad Program in Knoxville and looking if I would be able to get in on the cleanup crew in Fukashima. I will be graduating with 40hr HAZWOPER and my DOE Core Card. I was wondering if anyone knows how to get in on the cleanup crews. Thank you.
Richard
Title: Re: Job in Japan?
Post by: HydroDave63 on Jan 26, 2012, 11:57
I was wondering if anyone knows how to get in on the cleanup crews. Thank you.
Richard

Be local, and be there by April 2011.
Title: Re: Job in Japan?
Post by: Laundry Man on Jan 27, 2012, 08:57
Can you read and speak Japanese?
LM
Title: Re: Job in Japan?
Post by: retired nuke on Jan 27, 2012, 10:30
あなたが読んで、日本語を話すことはできますか ?
Title: Re: Job in Japan?
Post by: snowman on Jan 27, 2012, 01:37
Long story short, few if any HP's from the US will ever see this project. CHP's, highly degreed people to observe and study the impact this accident has had on the area maybe. But craft people and technicians who will actually do the cleanup work will all come from the Phillipines and other surrounding areas who can speak the language and here's the biggie, who will come cheap and I do mean cheap. Sorry.
Title: Re: Job in Japan?
Post by: HydroDave63 on Jan 27, 2012, 02:49
Basically what Snowman said. They are being paid about a dollar a millirem.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/japans-nuclear-temp-workers-exposed-to-unmeasured-risks-181692.html (http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/japans-nuclear-temp-workers-exposed-to-unmeasured-risks-181692.html)
Title: Re: Job in Japan?
Post by: IPREGEN on Jan 27, 2012, 02:58
あなたが読んで、日本語を話すことはできますか ?

That's what I was thinking.
Title: Re: Job in Japan?
Post by: Marlin on Jan 27, 2012, 03:57
あなたが読んで、日本語を話すことはできますか ?

I did at one time but can now barely count to ten, just like my spanish from two years of it in High School.   ;)

Title: Re: Job in Japan?
Post by: Incline on Jan 28, 2012, 12:29
The rain will clean it up, at least the worst of it. I believe they are still trying to get a better handle on stopping the release. Like what was mentioned above, speak the language, work cheap, and have a CHP so you can be a consultant.
 
I would like go over and personally see how bad it is just to satisfy my own curiosity (like passing a bad car wreck), but their standards and culture are much different than ours and I don't believe I would care to actually work over there. I don't think workers are afforded the same rights in Japan as they are in the USA. I really think they are going to look in 3rd world countries for their labor on the clean up because workers from a country in turmoil will do the work and not complain as opposed to staying home in their tent and dodging bullets.